bulk
IPA: bˈʌɫk
noun
- Size, specifically, volume.
- Any huge body or structure.
- The major part of something.
- Majority
- Gist
- Dietary fibre.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- (obsolete) The body.
verb
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.
adjective
- being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
- total
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